New York Nightlife

New York Nightlife

A dance show by Big Apple Ballroom

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Ballroom in a Lower East Side speakeasy. We brought the floor to The Back Room for a night — red light, a pressed-tin ceiling, and dancing between the bar and the banquettes.

Photos

Wide view of The Back Room — pressed-tin ceiling, chandelier and a seated audience as a performer speaks.
A dancer's silhouette, arm raised, through haze and coloured light at the bar.
Couples dancing through red haze on the Back Room floor.
Three dancers in red fringed dresses move together in front of the bar.
Black and white: a dancer lifted overhead beneath the Back Room's chandelier.
Black and white: a dancer in a fringed dress reaches low across the floor, the bar behind her.
A performer carries his partner across the floor under deep red light.
Two dancers reach apart under red light, the follower in a pale skirt.
A couple dance beneath the chandelier with the audience close around them.
A dancer in a purple dress turns under her partner's arm in red light.
Black and white: a performer in a checked jacket and flat cap plays to the seated audience.
A couple pose at the bar, the follower in a fringed leopard-print dress.

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